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Programme of the International Symposium on ‘Changing Mountain Environments in Asia’
国際シンポジウム：かわりゆくアジアの山岳環境(International Symposium ‘Changing Mountain
Environments in Asia’). 2012年10月7日(日)∼9日(火). Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu （ネパール）.
2012-10-07
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Programme of the International Symposium on
‘Changing Mountain Environments in Asia’
12:30 - 12:45
Land use change and its impact on livelihoods: A case from Upper
Bhotokoshi Area
Uttam Sagar Shrestha
12:45 - 13:15
Discussion
Day 1 (Sunday, 7 October)
08:00 - 17:00
Registration
09:00 - 10:35
Inaugural Ceremony (Chair: Hira Bahadur Maharjan)
13:15 - 14:15
Lunch
14:15 - 16:00
Session 2: Climate change, glacier and hydrology
(Chair: Takanobu Sawagaki)
09:00 - 09:10
Welcoming the dignitaries to the dais
09:10 - 09:20
Welcome
Guan Nidhi Nyeupane (Rector, Tribhuvan University)
14:15 - 14:30
09:20 - 09:25
Inauguration
Chief Guest, Hon. Minister Keshab Man Shakya
(Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, Nepal)
Sensitivity of precipitation on water flow simulation over the Koshi
River basin, Nepal
F. Delclaux, L. Neppel, P. Chevallier, N. Gonga-Saholiariliva and M. Savean
14:30 - 14:45
Climate change effects on water and agriculture system: A study from Upper
Kali Gandaki River Basin in Mustang, Nepal
Prem S. Chapagain
14:45 - 15:00
Impact of climate change in snow and glaciers
Bhabana Thapa
15:00 - 15:15
Glacier change in Nepal Himalaya: Myth and reality
Katsuhiko Asahi
15:15 - 15:45
Discussion
09:25 - 09:40
Opening Remarks
His Excellency Kunio Takahashi (Japanese Ambassador to Nepal)
09:40 - 10:00
Keynote Speech ‘Demographic, economic and spatial transition
in Nepal: Implications for the mountain environment’
Pitambar Sharma (Former Vice Chair of the National Planning
Commission, Government of Nepal)
10:00 - 10:10
Inaugural Speech
Chief Guest, Hon. Minister Keshab Man Shakya
(Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, Nepal)
10:10 - 10:25
Vote of Thanks
Hideaki Shibata (Hokkaido University)
10:25 - 10:35
Chair Person’s Remarks and Closing of Inaugural Ceremony
Hira Bahadur Maharjan (Vice Chancellor, Tribhuvan University)
10:35 - 11:05
Group photo & Coffee/Tea break (In the garden)
11:05 - 13:15
Session 1: LUCC (Chair: Hideaki Shibata)
15:45 - 16:05
Coffee/Tea break
16:05 - 18:35
Session 3: HICAP (Chair: Neera Pradhan)
16:05 - 16:15
Introduction to HICAP
Neera Pradhan
16:15 - 16:30
Hydrological regime of the Brahmaputra river basin: preliminary
assessment using two model platforms
Shahriar M. Wahid, Arun B. Shrestha and Sardar M. Shah-Newaz
16:30 - 16:45
Preliminary findings on ‘Adaptation of Local Livelihoods to Changing
Ecosystem Goods and Services in the Context of Climate Change and
Gender Equity in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas’
E. Valdemar Holmgren
11:05 - 11:45
Keynote Lecture ‘Beyond anecdotal evidence: Providing systematic
and national-level evidence on multiple claims on land in the Lao PDR’
Andreas Heinimann
11:45 - 12:00
Land use and land cover change in the Chure (Siwalik) region,
western Nepal
Kedar Dahal
16:45 - 17:00
Climate-smart mountain agriculture to improve food security in the
HKH-region and its effects on land systems
Sarah Nischalke
12:00 - 12:15
Ecological dimensions of land use and land cover change in the
Siwalik Hills, Nepal
Motilal Ghimire
17:00 - 17:15
Environmental implications of farmers’ adaptation to climate change
Tor H. Aase
12:15 - 12:30
Impacts of land use change in the Koshi Hills, eastern Nepal
Puspa Sharma and Pushkar Kumar Pradhan
17:15 - 17:40
Discussion
18:00 - 20:00
Reception
Day 2 (Monday, 8 October)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
08:00 - 18:20
Registration
13:30 - 15:00
Session 6: Pastoralism 1 (Chair: Teiji Watanabe)
08:50 - 11:00
Session 4: Urbanization and livelihood (Chair: Puskar K. Pradhan)
08:50 - 09:30
09:30 - 09:45
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
11:00 - 11:15
10:25 - 10:35
11:30 - 11:45
13:30 - 13:45
Keynote Lecture ‘On measuring carrying capacity of mountain
regions’
Hariharan Ramachandra
Pathways of social-environmental transformation in pastoral social
ecological systems in the Global South: A research proposal
Julio C. Postigo
13:45 - 14:00
Spatiotemporal modeling of urban growth dynamics in
Kathmandu, Nepal
Rajesh Bahadur Thapa
Livestock farming in Hussaini village, Gojal district, northern Pakistan:
From stagnation to decline
Kazuo Mizushima
14:00 - 14:15
Place attachment and mobility of people in Rai community of
Bhojpur, eastern Nepal
Dhyanendra Bahadur Rai
Changing use of pastures: A case study of the sheep herders of
East Nepal
Kazuyuki Watanabe
14:15 - 14:30
Impact of outmigration of population on farming system and
household income in the hills of Nepal
Chhabi Lal Chidi
The transhumance of cattle by Tibetans in the northwestern part of
Yunnan Province, Southwest China
Shigeru Shirasaka and Guo-Quing Du
14:30 - 15:00
Discussion
Role of large cardamom on environment and livelihoods:
A case of Panchthar District
Shiba Prasad Rijal
15:00 - 16:30
15:00 - 15:15
Pastoral adaptation strategies to challenges of the post-Soviet era
in the eastern Pamir and the western Tien Shan
Andrei Doerre
15:15 - 15:30
Assessing vegetation cover changes induced by livestock grazing in
the Alai Valley, the Kyrgyz Republic in and after the Soviet time
Jie Liu, Teiji Watanabe, Shigeru Shirasaka and Ikuko Miyahara
15:30 - 15:45
Changing pastures in the Himalaya
Lila Nath Sharma
15:45 - 16:00
Himalayan rangeland ownership of Milke-Jaljale, eastern Nepal
Dilkumar Limbu, Madan Koirala and Shang Zhanhuan
16:00 - 16:30
Discussion
Discussion
Session 5: Forest and biodiversity (Chair: Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha)
Institutional dimensions and changing role of forest management
governance in Dehradun Valley
R.B. Singh, P. Kumria and K. Kimoto
Joint forest management: Community response and local
governance in drylands: A case of Alwar, Rajasthan, India
R.B. Singh, Ajay Kumar and K. Kimoto
Bacterial population on the phyllosphere of woody species in
subtropical environment at Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park,
central Nepal
Ram Kailash P. Yadav, Sushila Shrestha, Chandra P. Pokhrel
and Pramod Kumar Jha
11:45 - 12:00
Community seed banking in agrobiodiversity conservation and
mycoflora in stored paddy seeds
Chandra P. Pokhrel, Vimala Bhandari, Pramesh Lakhey and
Ram Kailash P. Yadav
12:00 - 12:30
Discussion
Session 7: Pastoralism 2 (Chair: Eklabya Sharma)
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee/Tea break
17:00 - 19:00
Poster session
Day 3 (Tuesday, 9 October)
08:30 - 18:20
Registration
09:00 - 10:30
Session 8: Tourism (Chair: Pramod Kumar Jha)
09:00 - 09:15
Mountaineering tourism in Nepal
Padma Chandra Poudel
09:15 - 09:30
Mountain tourism and its impact on livelihood
Ram Sharan Pathak
09:30 - 09:45
Impacts of tourism on water quality in Khumbu region, Nepal
Narayan Prasad Ghimire, Pramod Kumar Jha and G.U. Caravello
09:45 - 10:00
Ecotourism through the traditional and local practices -A case
study of Langtang National Park in NepalKazuko Tatsumi and Phurpa Tamang
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:20
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:30
13:45 - 14:00
Soil erosion modeling for sustainability of land system in Middle mountain
areas in Nepal: GI Science approach
Umesh Kumar Mandal
14:00 - 14:30
Discussion
14:30 - 16:00
14:30 - 14:45
Importance of field work in natural disaster rick assessments in
high mountains
Daene C. McKinney, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela and Alton Byers
14:45 - 15:00
Glacial lake development of Chamlang South Glacier and its prospect
to GLOF occurrence
Damodar Lamsal, Teiji Watanabe and Takanobu Sawagaki
15:00 - 15:15
Investigation of the Seti River disaster (May 5, 2012) and assessment of
past and future mountain hazards facing Pokhara, Nepal and upstream
communities
Dhananjay Regmi and Jeffrey Kargel
15:15 - 15:30
Hydrological assessment of significant lakes in Broghil and Qurumber
valleys, Pakistan
Ahmad Said and Samiullah Khan
15:30 - 16:00
Discussion
Discussion
Session 9: Mountain environments (Chair: Suresh Raj Chalise)
Carbon stock estimation and analysis of altitudinal carbon content
variation: A case study of Thulonagi Community Forest, Dolakha
district, Nepal
Kendra Jyoti Khadka, Kedar Rijal and Ramesh Prasad Sapkota
GPS collar tracking of argali (Ovis ammon) in the Sarychat-Ertash
State Reserve, Kyrgyz Republic: Problems on wildlife management
Shigeyuki Izumiyama, Maksat Anarbaev and Teiji Watanabe
Discussion
11:30 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Session 10: Disaster risk (Chair: Narendra Raj Khanal)
13:00 - 13:15
Landslide hazard in mountain areas of Nepal
Balaram Raya
13:15 - 13:30
Landslides hazard analysis of upper Madi, Nepal
Sher Bahadur Gurung
13:30 - 13:45
Disaster mitigation and landscape protection in the Western Ghats
Mountain region of Kerala: Challenges under a changing climate
K. Shadananan Nair
Session 11: Glacier and disaster risk (Chair: To Be Announced)
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee/Tea break
16:30 - 18:10
Session 12: Mountain environments (Chair: Teiji Watanabe)
16:30 - 16:45
Eco-crisis in the Himalayas: Is it realistic or utopian?
Hriday L. Koirala
16:45 - 17:00
Landscape dynamics in Chure hills and upstream - downstream linkages
Narendra Raj Khanal
17:00 - 17:15
Lessens learnt from Participatory Watershed Management Project in Nepal
Koji Terakawa
17:15 - 17:30
Field research and action projects: Two case studies from the Sagarmatha
(Mt. Everest) National Park, Nepal
Alton C. Byers
17:30 - 18:00
Discussion
18:00 - 18:10
Closing (Vote of thanks)
Teiji Watanabe
Poster Session 17:00 – 19:00, Monday, 8 October 2012
Status of wetland in Nepal -a case study of Beesh Hazari Lake
Pabitra Aryal
Climate change perception study: A case study of Pakjarbas VDCs of Ramechap district,
eastern Nepal
Suresh Bhandari
Assessment of carbon stock in Lake Nagadaha and its adjacent agriculture land, Dhapakhel,
Lalitpur
Mamtha Bhatta
Lichen species richness pattern along land use and elevational gradients in Kanchenjunga,
Nepal
Til Bikram Chongbang and Chitra Bahadur Baniya
Study of agricultural productivity and food security in response to climate change of Nepal: A
case study of Manaslu Conservation Area
Bunu Gauli
A case study on climate change vulnerability of Lalu VDC of Kalikot district
Rupendra Ghale
Tourism and development in Khadbari area
Kopila Karki and Padma Chandra Poudel
Biophysical and socio-economic impacts of downstream area of Kulekhani dam for inter-basin
transfer of water from Kulekhani to Rapti river
Jeevan Kutu, Binod Kutu, Narendra Raj Khanal, Hriday Lal Koirala, Pushpa Sharma and Sher
Bahadur Gurung
Change in surface area of non-debris covered glaciers in Hinku and Hongu valleys in the
eastern Nepal Himalaya between 1964 and 2008
Damodar Lamsal and Teiji Watanabe
Rapid assessment of trail degradation in Shei-Pa National Park, Taiwan
Yen-Liang Lee and Teiji Watanabe
Environmental and economic cost of Yarsagumba collection in Majhphal VDC of Dolpa district,
Nepal
Kamal Bahadur Nepali and Bharat Babu Shrestha
Response of Pinus wallichiana to climate change: A case study from Manaslu Conservation
Area, western Nepal
Sangita Pant
Seed germination behaviour of Gaultheira fragrantissima and Gaultheria nummularioides
Anju Poudel
Trekking tourism and development: A study along Manebhanjang to Namche Bazaar trekking
route
Subash Rai and Padma C. Poudel
Climate change vulnerability assessment: A case study of Raha VDC, Dolpa
Deepak Rajbanshi
Allelopatheic effects of aqueous extract of leaves of Mikania micrantha on seed germination
and seedling growth of some herbaceous plants
Anita Sahu and Anjana Devkota
Changing transhumance in Sary Tash, southern Kyrgyzstan
Feng Song, Teiji Watanabe and Shigeru Shirasaka
Application of a glacier flow model in the reconstruction of past glacier ELA – Combination of
geomorphological interpretation and glacier dynamics –
Takanobu Sawagaki, Yousuke Abe and Satoru Yamaguchi
Impacts of inter-basin transfer of water: A case study of Rapti Basin, central Nepal
Bishnu Kumar Tamang, Bhushan Prakash Bhandari, Narendra Raj Khanal, Hriday Lal Koirala,
Pushpa Sharma and Sher Bahadur Gurung
Elevational species richness pattern in Manaslu Conservation Area, Nepal
Ajay Thakali and Chitra Bahadur Baniya
NDVI-based vegetation change trend and its response to climate
changes in Koshi Basin in middle Himalaya Mountain on the world's
Third Pole
Yili Zhang, Jungang Gao, Linshan Liu, Zhaofeng Wang, Mingjun Ding
and Xuchao Yang
Organizing Committee
Krishna Belbase, Nepal Law Campus, TU
Bal Mukunda Bhandari, Executive Director, Centre for International Relation, TU
Narendra Kumar Chaudhary, Dean, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, TU
Pitambar Gautam, Creative Research Institution, HU
Motilal Ghimire, Central Dept. of Geography, TU
Narendra Raj Khanal, Central Department of Geography, TU
Takashi Kohyama, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, HU
Madan Koirala, Central Department of Environmental Science, TU
Pramod Kumar Jha, Central Department of Botany, TU
Pushkar Pradhan, Central Department of Geography, TU
Amber Prasad Pant, Faculty of Law, TU
Kedar Rijal, Central Department of Environmental Science, TU
Takanobu Sawagaki, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, HU
Narendra Man Shakya, Institute of Engineering, TU
Hideaki Shibata, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, HU & Scientific Steering Committee member of GLP
Chirik Shobha Tamrakar, Dean, Institute of Science and Technology, TU
Noriyuki Tanaka, Center for Sustainability Science, HU
Chiranjibi Prasad Upadhyaya, Dean, Institute of Forestry, TU
Teiji Watanabe, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, HU & Executive Director of GLP Sapporo Nodal Office
Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, HU
Advisory Committee
Tor Halfdan Aase, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway
Suresh Raj Chalise, Former Professor, TU, Nepal
Hermann Kreutzmann, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Geographic Sciences, Free University Berlin, Germany
Hira Bahadur Maharjan, Vice Chancellor, TU, Nepal
Daene C. McKinney, Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at
Austin, U.S.A.
Subash Nirola, CEO, Nepal Tourism Board, Nepal
Gunanidhi Nyaupane, Rector, TU, Nepal
Chandramani Paudel, Registrar, TU, Nepal
Hariharan Ramachandran, Professor, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India
Madhav Sharma, Professor and Ex. Vice Chancellor, TU, Nepal
Eklabya Sharma, Director of Programme Operations, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal
Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha, Lifetime member, Nepal Academy, Nepal
Joëlle Smadja, Director, UPR 299, CNRS, France
Bishnu R. Upreti, NCCR North-South South Asia Regional Office, Nepal
Zhang YiLi, Professor, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Logistic Management Office
The Himalayan Research Expeditions (http://himalayanresearch.com.np/)